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11/01/201510:07 AM"Our Connection Collection"Editorial - Ken Sinclair, Publisher11/01/201510:05 AMConnected Building RoadmapThe
intent of the session was to ask the attendees to look into the future,
and tell BC Hydro what connected buildings would look like in ten
years, and what technologies or other items of interest might appear in
the meantime. - Graham Henderson P.Eng. Sr. Program Manager, Commercial
Marketing Energy, Regulatory & Business Planning, BC Hydro11/01/201510:04 AMTake the NIST Transactive Energy ChallengeWe
are actively building up the teams and seeking to bring in new
participants and form new teams. Potentially there could be a
buildings-focused team to address the use of TE inside a building or
campus. - David Holmberg, Researcher, Mechanical Systems and Controls
Group, NIST Engineering Laboratory11/01/201510:03 AMBuilding Automation needs a Global Standard- not only a Data Communication Protocol - Dipl.-Ing. Hans R. Kranz VDI, Forst / Baden, (active) retirement11/01/201510:03 AM"Who is (the future of) BACnet?"You
are the future of BACnet, and you have been preparing your child for
this day to meet the new world. You now need to allow your creation to
go and grow. - Ken Sinclair, Founder, Owner, Publisher
AutomatedBuildings.com11/01/201510:02 AMThe Best-Kept Industry Secret?Engineers,
both new and experienced, are unaware of the platform's development
over the past seven years into a world-class smart lighting control
solution. - Mike Welch, Managing Director, CNS11/01/201510:01 AMOf Pitchforks and HaystacksSo
now I've been an observer of this market long enough to see hype become
reality - albeit with some changes to the who, when and how. - Therese
Sullivan, Principal, BuildingContext Ltd11/01/201510:01 AMEnhancing Legacy Buildings with IoTIoT
technology has the potential to provide more granular data to BAS and
EMS systems, to add intelligence at the edge. - Steve Jones, Managing
Partner, The S4 Group, Inc11/01/201510:00 AMLighting Control is a Key Enabler for Enterprise IoTbut needs Open Standards - Allan McHale, Director, Memoori11/01/201509:59 AMData Centers Reach Toward Operational Excellence Guided by Predictive AnalyticsOperational
Data from Real-time Monitoring Makes the Difference between a Simulated
Approximation and Reliable Decision Support - Therese Sullivan,
Principal, BuildingContext Ltd11/01/201509:58 AM'Perfect Storm' for IoT in BuildingsYet,
the vast majority of these portfolio managers have no knowledge or
solution for fully 'IoT'ing (i.e. networking and connecting data) their
biggest assets, under the status quo. - Deb Noller, Switch Automation11/01/201509:57 AMGetting Building Operators to Play a Pivotal Role in Energy Efficiency Projectsthe
Key to Maintaining or Improving Savings Over Time - Mathieu Cote, MBA,
PMP, BEP, Director, Canadian Institute for Energy Training (CIET),
Training Division Econoler11/01/201509:57 AMNew Company Provides BAS/DDC Training SolutionsThe
PT-121 is an interactive portable training unit and curriculum package
for the building automation controls industry. - Jon Vietti, DDC
Support Services.com11/01/201509:56 AMHow is lighting the nerve system of the smart building?Densely
distributed throughout all building types and the urban landscape,
lighting is the most logical platform for embedding sensors that gather
key information about a space and provide a network to relay that
information back to software-based controls. - Kaynam Hedayat, VP
Product Management, Digital Lumens11/01/201509:55 AMSurvey of 800+ Building Professionals Shows Mass ConfusionAs
commercial real estate embraces new ways to maximize energy efficiency,
it is clear that there needs to be more visibility around the merits,
both practical and financial, of energy management solutions that can
optimize BMS or be used as a standalone product. - Jon Moeller,
President of MACH Energy11/01/201509:54 AM2015 ControlTrends AwardsIn
addition to the 22 categories, the Young Gun Awards, the Petock Award,
and the ControlTrends Hall of Fame inductees, we are recognizing two of
the top trends of 2015 -- with a Cyber Security Award, and with the
ControlTrends Systems Integrator of the Year Award. - Ken Smyers,
ControlTrends.org11/01/201509:53 AMIoT Needs ITFGetting BAS to IoT means passing through IT-Friendly - Andy McMillan, Strategy Consultant & President, BACnet International11/01/201509:53 AMGoogle Demands your ResponsivenessIs
your own website driving customers to your competitor by being
non-responsive? - Manny Mandrusiak, Managing Creative Consultant, 4
Bravo Marketing11/01/201509:50 AMCentral Energy Plant Control and IntegrationProper
design of the controls and integration to key equipment is one of the
best options to improve not only efficiency but also reliability and
maintainability. - Paul Ehrlich, Ira Goldschmidt & Angela Lewis,
Building Intelligence Group11/01/201509:50 AMSatisfaction + Well Being = ProductivityThere
is a lot to absorb in this new way of thinking to make the needed
transformational change in our industry but, if we can achieve and
document satisfaction and wellbeing and their respective connection to
productivity, we will create a new value proposition and a new industry
based on our traditional skill set. - Ken Sinclair,
AutomatedBuildings.com11/01/201509:49 AMYour Interest Pinned - PinterestThe visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save creative ideas.11/01/201509:48 AMAcross My Desk- snippets, blog bits, and url links that are about to fall off my desktop11/01/201509:47 AMAHRExpo2016 Education SessionsOur 17th year of Education Sessions in Orlando.11/01/201509:36 AMNew Products for NovemberA brief description of some new products for the industry.footer